all articles tagged 'storyboards'

Shooting Awesome Video

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Josh
on May 22, 2009
in cinematography, lighting, location sound, planning, self-paced training and web video
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NOW AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD THROUGH DVcreatorsUniversity!

Shooting Awesome Video is the world’s best complete beginning course on shooting high quality video.

If your video footage looks like ”Blair Witch” or “Cloverfield”, and you wish it looked more like “Amelie” or “Hero”, Shooting Awesome Video is the perfect learning experience. It is like a complete “consumer film school” for anyone who wants to dramatically improve the quality of the video footage they shoot.

Shooting Awesome Video is not meant for professionals. It was created for novices who wish to …

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Apple may add storyboarding to Final Cut Pro?

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Josh
on February 3, 2009
in editing and planning
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I remember heading to dinner 6 or 7 years ago with Randy Ubillos, creator of Final Cut Pro, telling him my vision for a future FCP update- incorporating some pre-production elements like storyboarding, in which the user would link captured clips to a storyboard frame, then FCP would rough cut the project together automatically, with multiple takes being multiclips so they could be easily compared.

Now, it’s possible Apple is patenting some storyboarding processes to incorporate into FCP?

Check out the whole article here.



Where can I download blank storyboards to use in my own projects?

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Josh
on February 19, 2006
in planning and planning products
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Our storyboard from Shooting Awesome Video

http://www.xinsight.ca/tools/storyboard.html

Blank Storyboard Download

Blank Storyboard Download layout 2



How can I previsualize my project for my team, clients or backers without shooting a single second?

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Josh
on November 30, 1999
in planning
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If you really want to previsualize your project before shooting, either for your own benefit or to pitch a project to financiers, your boss, or your mom, consider doing a “living storyboard”- that means:

  • draw storyboard frames
  • use the “Photo” button on your camcorder to capture each storyboard frame to DV tape
  • capture the “footage”
  • edit the stills together in your editing software
  • do a scratch audio track in which you do all the voices (and music and sound effects- and even comment on certain

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